In the voting records of the General Assembly resolutions
adopted with vote and Security Council resolutions, tag
996
is used to record the number of
«Yes» and
«No» votes and abstentions on a particular
resolution.

This tag is not used for General
Assembly resolutions adopted without vote
.

The voting information is stored in «V:\GA\vote\»
. The voting
information on the latest resolution is usually in the last text file
with a numeric name.
For example: «VOTE_0620.txt» contains voting
information on General Assembly resolution 58/245.

To import the votes:

1. Copy the latest vote file from V:\GA\vote\ to c:\voterec.Note the vote file number 0620 to use it in the next step.

2. Open MS-DOS and change directory to
«voterec»:

3. Type «prevote»«space» and the number of the vote file
(See step 1)

And wait for a normal termination of the process.

4. After the normal termination change directory to «voteprep»
and write down
the record ID (the voting record ID number which is picked up by the system
from the s:\adhoc\recordid\voterec.txt
(see tag 035)). For example,
V0009836.

5. Exit MS-DOS.

6. In Horizon - cataloguing module:

Choose File from the navigation bar and then
Import and input the
following information:

Import File -
c:\voterec\vote.iso

Import Source - catadd

Click OK

7. In Horizon - Votepac Search:
Search by record ID that was written down during the voteprep process in
MS-DOS, e.g. V0009836 (See step 4). Open the voting record.